The Missouri Compromise of 1820 Crossword Puzzle by Avery Juhn and Lauren Ha

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Across
  1. 2. A settlement of differences, key to the 1820 act.
  2. 4. The U.S. was undergoing this westward during the compromise.
  3. 7. The compromise temporarily eased this between North and South.
  4. 9. President when the Missouri Compromise was signed into law.
  5. 12. The state admitted as a slave state in the 1820 agreement.
  6. 13. Congress engaged in this over Missouri's status.
  7. 15. Growing division between North and South over slavery.
  8. 16. Type of state Missouri became.
  9. 17. The Northwest ___ of 1787 had banned slavery north of the Ohio River.
  10. 18. What eventually happened to the Missouri Compromise in 1854.
Down
  1. 1. Type of state Maine was admitted as.
  2. 2. The legislative body that passed the Missouri Compromise.
  3. 3. The major issue the Missouri Compromise tried to balance.
  4. 5. Admitted as a free state alongside Missouri.
  5. 6. The compromise was an effort to preserve this.
  6. 7. Land area where slavery was banned north of the 36°30' line.
  7. 8. The large territory affected by the compromise.
  8. 10. The 36°30' parallel is often called the Missouri Compromise ___.
  9. 11. What the compromise aimed to maintain between free and slave states.
  10. 14. Last name of the "Great Compromiser" who helped broker the deal.